Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:54:37 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 32 or 64 bit as server ? Message-ID: <20101123145437.2d50c661@core.draftnet> In-Reply-To: <20101123090036.6caf33b9.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <4CEB8EE1.1080702@kukulies.org> <20101123084342.4ab645d9@scorpio> <20101123090036.6caf33b9.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:00:36 -0500 Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: > Of course, things are always changing, and at this point in time, my > advice would be "only go 32 bit if you _know_ there's something that > won't work in 64 bit." The only other time I'd recommend installing a 32-bit version is if you're stuck with a machine with a very limited amount of memory. For example I'm having to run www/mail/db in only 256MB, so I chose not to install the 64-bit version which would use more memory. -- Bruce Cran
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